G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes #1Review

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Snake Eyes tracks down Khalikhan.

By Miguel Perez

You'd be hard pressed to find a Joe more badass than Snake Eyes. The dude has a sword for crying out loud! The quintessential loner gets his own series as the Cobra Civil War builds steam and while the final product has a few kinks, it sets up a snow-covered adventure that delivers plenty of ninja goodness.

As the title implies, Snake Eyes takes center stage and puts together a small team to investigate the murder of several other Joes at the hand of Khalikhan. Snake Eyes never talks, so a series centered on him means surrounding him with a well-balanced team that can narrate as well as provide entertainment. Helix gets a good amount of face time, but Alpine and Iceberg could have been given a more solid introduction as they still feel like a couple of red shirts at this point. Hopefully that changes as the series progresses.

Robert Atkins' work is usually a great fit for the Joe books, but the final action scene felt unnecessarily confusing for a fight between only four people. It looked pretty, but was far more complex than it needed to be.

After a wonderful build up in the final pages, the cliffhanger left me somewhat disappointed. It's not horrible, but the scene ends too abruptly. It would have been more effective if Chuck Dixon had given us just one more panel, or maybe even taken away a few and left us somewhere else entirely. Either way it's a decent start for the book and fans of Snake Eyes won't be disappointed.